when something is willing to rip off its own arms to beat you to death with them, things are baaaad.
into the labyrinth, an ariadne/theseus mythfic, pg-13
She lives in a house of secrets; he’s promised to slay the monsters. How many answers will she get? How many promises will he keep? (written for katie.)
“How can you promise that?” She looked into his face, saw what she thought was heartfelt sincerity. But how little she knew people, how naïve she was when it came to trust… She yearned for this young man, body and heart; he had sparked something within her that she had never expected to feel. But she knew nothing about him beyond a name-and how could she believe anything he had said? (3,956 words)
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ICONS:
• Irene Adler (Sherlock).
• Gossip Girl, OUAT, The Vampire Diaries.
• Sherlock, DW.
• OUAT, Sherlock.
• The Avengers, SPN.
• Beautifully colorful multifandom.
• Sherlock, misc.
• Marvel icon battle.
• DW, Legend of the Seeker, Fringe, Parks & Recs, HP.
• Legend of the Seeker, OUAT, stock, Disney.
• DW, Dianna Agron, OUAT, misc.
• Spartacus.
• Belle (OUAT).
• Game of Thrones, DW.
• DW, SPN, Fringe, Hawaii Five-0, misc.
• Game of Thrones, DW.
• Happy Endings, Parks & Recs, Shameless, misc.
• The Hour, Luther, OUAT, Sherlock, Bomb Girls, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries.
• True Blood, Billie Piper's face, assorted movies and shows.
• OUAT.
• LOST, Game of Thrones, Legend of the Seeker, SPN.
AWESOMENESS:
• The Complete Guide to Not Giving a Fuck.
• "Against Big Bird, the gods themselves contend in vain.": Scott Lynch (author of The Lies of Locke Lamora) recounts the best episode of Sesame Street EVER.
• Female friends spend raucous night validating the living shit out of each other. Sometimes I just really love The Onion.
• Pulp Shakespeare, an entirely Shakespearean adaptation of Pulp Fiction. Watch the whole thing -- it's so worth it.
• How to be a fan of problematic things.
• The 10 best fictional bookstores in pop culture. BLACK FUCKING BOOKS, BITCHES.
• The future has an ancient heart: advice on how to survive post-graduation.
• Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany. AHHHHHHHHHHH.
• Elaborately beautiful clockwork paper jewelry.
• Ben Browder to guest star in s7 of Doctor Who!
• Tips for writing serial fiction.
• 221B Baker Street painted skulls. HOLY SHIT AWESOME.
CRACKED.COM:
• Six classic series you didn't know were made up on the fly.
• Five terrifyingly advanced ways animals know how to kill.
• Five mysterious disappearances (that were elaborate hoaxes).
• Four famous pop culture moments everyone remembers incorrectly.
• 6 terrifying new creatures science just discovered.
• 5 reasons today isn't going to suck.
• Six insect predators that go out of their way to be evil.
• The six worse hiding places in the history of crime.
• How Archie's gay friend proved that the internet can do good.
• Six historical events that are way more modern than you think.
• Five movies that accidentally killed innocent characters.
• Six things movie characters always seem to forget.
YOUR MOMENT OF ZEN:
Second best scene in cinematic history -- the first was obviously
where the skeleton pushed the wife into the vat of acid.